Jan 27, 2022 - Sale 2593

Sale 2593 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

RUSSELL LEE (1903-1986)


A group of 5 photographs depicting the Southern United States.
Silver prints, the images measuring 165.1x241.3 mm; 6 1/2x9 1/2 inches, and slightly larger, the sheets 203.2x254 mm; 8x10 inches, all but one with Lee's signature, and each with Lee's F.S.A. credit hand stamp and the title, date, and numeric notation, in pencil or typed, on verso. 1938-39.

Southeast Missouri Farms. Son of sharecropper dressing in combination bedroom and corn crib, 1938 * Residents at Boothville, Louisiana sitting on dock, 1938 * Sewing cap into toe of boot. Cowboy bootmaking shop, Alpine, Texas, 1939 * Farmers in town, Spur, Texas, 1939 * Family living in Mays Avenue camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1939.